Jenga

What game is Theresa May playing over Brexit? A number of City leaders fear that the game is more like Jenga. The block-balancing game has become a favourite metaphor, highlighting the complex and interconnected nature of the Brexit process. “You don’t know if you pull one brick out what will happen” Douglas Flint. A minor move, such as forcing the clearing of euro-denominated trades into the eurozone, could lead to much wider damage to London.

Rougher Times Ahead

Making money in asset management is becoming increasingly difficult, for reasons that are unlikely to go away even as global wealth continues to grow. Bankers have had the rougher decade, but it is asset managers who are moving into the tougher environment.

Planting Trees - Financial Times house and home

A story about the menacing staring sheep, the country estate with the rows of trees and forests, Wangari Muta Maathai’s Green Belt movement in Kenya and India’s record-breaking 50 million trees planted in one day last year.